Jurassic World Composer on John Williams, Making the New Music His Own

John Williams’ Jurassic Park score is just as remarkable and memorable as the dinosaurs at the center of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 action-adventure blockbuster. Just think to when paleontologists Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) first arrive, and founder John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) utters those famous words, “Welcome to Jurassic Park.” Or, look to the end of the film, when the T-rex saves our heroes from a pair of raptors, and a banner that reads “When dinosaurs ruled the Earth” falls across the imposing beast like a pageant contestant’s sash.